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The hapless journey of the poor farmer Don Chipote de Jesús Maria Domínguez, who naively leaves behind his wife and children in Mexico to seek riches in the United States--where, he is assured, one can sweep up gold dust off the streets and "suck the nectar from the tree of life."
El viaje desventurado del campesino pobre Don Chipote de Jesús María Domínguez, quien deja ingenuamente detrás de su esposa e hijos en México para buscar riquezas...
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"Recounts Ponciano's run-in with Vicente Silva and his bandits, who history confirms murdered, stole, and rustled cattle throughout the 1880s. It's the story of a farmer outwitting Silva in a folktale that shapes our understanding of the cultures of northern New Mexico"--